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Re: Magazine Sales

The format seems to be dying. Has been for years, the publishers don't seem willing to accept it though. This is a twenty year trend, not anything new. All the same it is sad to see a magazine as great as Afternoon dip below 100,000. Very, very sad.

Re: Magazine Sales

Ikki's circulation is only 11,000? are seinen magazine don't have to rely on magazine sales? How can that survives? And also looking at the circulations, the one who have the best selling shonen and seinen are Shueisha and Kodansha. Shogakukan's really losing it.

Re: Magazine Sales

Super Jump = 201,667
Business Jump = 238,500

Super Jump and Business Jump merged into single semi-monthly magazine called Grand Jump start in November. Super Jump #21-22 and Business Jump #21-22 will last issues on sale on October 5th (BJ) and October 12th (SJ), according to sitomi_r4 at ustream.tv chat. Please anyone can confirm? Also she mention Jump Kai start in Spring 2012.

Re: Magazine Sales

Going by these numbers, Monthly Shonen Magazine is the fourth largest shonen anthology?

Originally Posted by Bomber D Rufi

It's been one chapter. Lets revisit this issue when the first volume is out and we actually have an idea of where the story is going? Though I guess my suggestion will probably fall on deaf ears and if/when it is cancelled, the 'I told you so' crowd will pop their collars in misguided and unfounded praise of themselves. ....Just another day in the WSJ thread I guess.

Re: Magazine Sales

Monthly Shounen Magazine should be number three, behind Weekly Jump and Weekly Magazine only (unless I am missing something). Sunday is number four, Corocoro is a kids magazine, not shounen.

Monthly Shonen Magazine is third highest selling manga magazine which is kind of suprising for me because I don't recall any series from MSM that is high enough to lead the magazine (I know there are some series that regularly makes Oricon top 30, but not as high as Fair Tail or Ahiru no Sora).

Re: Magazine Sales

Originally Posted by Negative Syndicate

Monthly Shonen Magazine is third highest selling manga magazine which is kind of suprising for me because I don't recall any series from MSM that is high enough to lead the magazine (I know there are some series that regularly makes Oricon top 30, but not as high as Fair Tail or Ahiru no Sora).

Could be as simple an explanation as readers buy the magazine but don't buy the tankobon. For me it is harder to grasp the monthlies circulation due to how rare it is for any series to be scanlated or licensed. There are a few but Beck was the last one I can remember that was very well known.

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I have a question, but I'm not sure whether this is right place.

Is increase of price for magazine means that the magazine is expanding its page number or a financial reason?

Could be a lot of reasons: rising costs, change of demographic, change of release schedule. It would have to be a dramatic rise in the number of pages to warrant charging more money. That does not happen very often and a rise in price, if there is one, would reflect serializing more manga rather than the paper cost, which would be a marginal expense.